Articles about Same-sex Adoption

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29 November 2012
Comment: UKIP and homosexuality – a gay member’s view 207 In a comment piece for PinkNews.co.uk, Nicholas Dancer, a university student and member of UKIP says the party is not a bunch of “fruit cakes and loonies" and that Britain should leave the European Union if it wants to legalise equal marriage.
28 November 2012
US: Washington marriage certificates to reflect legalisation of same-sex marriage 7 Washington State's Department of Health is currently reviewing the text displayed on marriage certificates, with a view to bring it in line with recently introduced equal marriage law.
27 November 2012
UKIP ‘not against gay adoption’ says London chairman 89 UKIP’s London Regional Chairman David Coburn has criticised the party’s candidate for the North Croydon By-election after he said gay couples adopting amounted to child abuse.
26 November 2012
UKIP Culture Spokesman: Same-sex adoption is ‘child abuse’ 64 Just hours after reports that a UKIP candidate spoke out saying he believed gay people should not be allowed to adopt, he has gone one step further, to say that same-sex adoption is the same as "child abuse".
26 November 2012
UKIP By-election candidate: Gay people should not be allowed to adopt 123 Winston McKenzie, the UK Independence Party’s candidate for the Croydon North By-election and former X Factor hopeful, believes gay people should not be allowed to adopt children.
28 October 2012
Northern Ireland Health minister criticised by Greens over gay adoption appeal 15 Speaking at his party’s conference, Northern Ireland Green Party leader Steven Agnew said Edwin Poots was "unfit for office" over his decision to challenge a senior judge’s ruling on adoption rights for couples in civil partnerships.
24 October 2012
Northern Ireland attorney general isolated over gay adoption + The UK Government is seeking to distance itself from Northern Ireland Attorney General John Larkin’s decision to intervene in a European court case involving gay adoption laws.
18 October 2012
Northern Ireland Health minister to challenge gay adoption ruling 35 Northern Ireland Health Minister Edwin Poots has announced he will challenge a landmark ruling to overturn the ban that prevents gay couples in civil partnerships from adopting in the country.
18 October 2012
Northern Ireland gay adoption ban ruled unlawful 12 The ban preventing gay couples in civil partnerships and unmarried straight couples from adopting children in Northern Ireland has been deemed unlawful, a High Court judge has ruled.
18 October 2012
UK: Equal marriage film director turns his attention to same-sex parenting 11 Film director Mike Buonaiuto, whose equal marriage film Homecoming became a huge online success, has now turned his attention to the issue of same-sex parenting.
13 September 2012
UK Catholic adoption charity resumes anti-gay legal fight 49 Catholic Care’s latest appeal in its ongoing campaign to be allowed to prevent gay couples from using its adoption services has begun at the Upper Tribunal in central London.
12 September 2012
France moves closer towards equal marriage and same-sex adoption rights 22 The French government has confirmed plans to introduce equal marriage and adoption rights for same-sex couples.
31 August 2012
Same-sex adoption bill drawn from ballot in New Zealand 3 New Zealand's 50-year-old adoption laws are to be debated by parliament in order to potentially bring about changes that would allow same-sex couples to adopt.
20 January 2012
Virginia gay adoption battle kicks off 1 At the General Assembly in Richmond, Virginia, a battle is heating up over whether adoption agencies should be allowed to discriminate against prospective parents based on their sexual orientation.
19 January 2012
Study doubts Santorum view that lesbian parents “rob children” 26 A new study provides a counter-argument to Rick Santorum, who suggested that children of lesbian parents were "worse off than children with a father in prison."
7 September 2010
Hundreds of gay couples marry in Mexico 8 Approximately 400 same-sex couples have married in Mexico, six months after the law permitting gay marriage came into effect.
31 August 2010
Australian same-sex adoption bill debate heats up 7 Approximately 200 people were present in Sydney's New South Wales (NSW) Parliament House earlier today for a Council of Churches meeting and a public protest against the same-sex adoption bill.
25 August 2010
Lobby groups in New South Wales react against gay adoption rights bill 3 Lobby groups in the Australian state of New South Wales are reportedly coming out against the country's upcoming parliamentary debate and conscience vote on the rights of same-sex couples to adopt children.
28 June 2010
Scots adoption agency tells gay couples not to be discouraged 5 The Scottish Adoption agency has told gay couples not to be put off by the "very negative publicity" surrounding the issue of same-sex coulples adopting children.
24 June 2010
Australian politician introduces same-sex adoption bill 2 Independent Australian MP Clover Moore introduced a same-sex adoption bill on Thursday.

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